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Exadis

I have a 120 gig hard drive, and windows XP home, it
patitions so I only get 30 gigs, how do I fix that?
 
Use NTFS instead of FAT when formatting. (and make sure your BIOS will
handle drives that size.)
 
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Use NTFS instead of FAT when formatting. (and make sure your BIOS will
handle drives that size.)

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Steve C. Ray




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How do I do any of that, when I put in the boot cd for
windows XP it just says, formatting will replace all day,
click yes to proceed, I do that, and it AUTO creates
EVERYTHING ... doesnt give me options at all.
 
If this is a slave drive, right click on My Computer and select Manage. On
the following screen, select Disk Management. The drive should appear on
the right hand side of the screen and you partition it from there.

If it's the root (c:\) drive, boot with the XP CD.... you will have to
delete all partitions, create one new one and then format.

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
"Cari (MS-MVP)"

Does this mean you can bypass the 32 Gig FAT 32 limit in XP by following
your instructions?

JAX
 
No.... it isn't possible with XP to bypass the 32gb FAT32 limit. Though why
anyone with XP is still using FAT32 if they are not dual booting is
completely beyond me.

Caqri
www.coribright.com
 
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